The first time I met Tony Curtis in Los Angeles to discuss co-writinghis autobiography, I told him -- by way of clumsy introduction -- that at age 11, my best friend and I went to see his 1958 action film "The Vikings" three times in two days, adding, "We desperately wanted to BE Tony Curtis."

It's one thing for a movie critic to stick his thumb in the air, and quite another for him to put his money where his mind is.

But Barry Paris, noted film author ("Garbo") and critic for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was so ardent in his recent four-star review of the Chinese film "King of Masks" that he is making "a first-ever-in-film-critic-history offer," he wrote in the paper. Read more... about Critic Takes Gamble